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"STALLION GATE"

MARTIN CRUZ SMITH

the author of

GORKY PARK

STALLION GATE . . .

LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO, 1945 . . .

In the barren expanse of an ancient land the most dangerous experiment in the history of mankind is taking place. The objective of Robert Oppenheimer and his elite of scientists from among the Allies was probably the most guarded secret of the war and yet the wise men among the Indians, whose reservations at Los Alamos had been appropriated for the atom bomb test site, devined the nature of the experiments on the Hill and were as grimly troubled as to the consequences as were some of the scientists themselves. The Hill isn't a place", Oppenheimer said, "it's a time warp. We are the future surrounded by a land and a people that haven't changed in a thousand years." The odd man out on the Hill is Oppenheimer's Indian guide and bodyguard, Sargeant Pena. These two figures, one a gentle, quirky, and phenomenally brilliant physicist, the other a battle-scarred veteran, musician, fighter, reckless lover of Anna Weiss - a refugee from the Holocaust and Oppenheimer's mathematical prodigy - and resolutely his own man, form a strange alliance, one that puzzles Oppenheimer's fellow scientists and infuriates Pena's commanding officer, Captain Augustino, the chief of security. The FBI is certain that there is a spy in the camp and Augustino believes it to be Oppenheimer. But Pena, instinctively loyal to Oppenheimer and instinctively resentful of Augustino, is a recalcitrant pawn. He has his own notion as to who is the traitor. But, when the final timetable for the detonation is set, Pena has made his private treaty for the future world, for his escape from the Hill, for a life of love with Anna, a life of music and of peace, by waging one last offensive of his own. The crowning days of Oppenheimer's own battle against crisis on the Hill, against pressure from the army chiefs in Washington, from the sinister incursions the Indians, from the scrutiny of Augustino, and finally against - so it seems - the elements, are fabulously told and fiercely exciting. The collision of two cultures on the eve of a new world is portrayed as perhaps only Martin Cruz Smith could have portrayed it.

Stallion Gate confirms Martin Cruz Smith as a persistently original storyteller whose gifts transcend those of most of the internationally acclaimed authors of thrillers. His being part-Indian give Mr. Smith the title and the insight to straddle the two worlds that make up Stallion Gate.

Published by: Wm. Collins and Sons Limited - 1986

Author: Martin Cruz Smith

Size: 225 x 150mm - 288 pages of black and white text plus endpapers, hard cover and dust jacket..

Condition - Good. Minor tears, creases and indentations to the dust jacket - text, endpapers and dust jacket are very good - binding is firm. There is age yellowing through the text.

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